Monday, December 14, 2015

Delivery Time! 2 by 3 Heroes is Pretty Darn Great.

The baseball card blogging community is full of great people (and a few duds but we won't dwell on that today). However, out of all the great people there are a few people who rise up into a higher category, we call them the greaters.

No, we don't call them that.

What we can call one of those extra great person is Jeff - he of the 2 by 3 Heroes blog. Jeff is well known throughout the blogging land as an expert sender of plain white envelopes tailored to a particular collector's whims and interests.

As one of the lucky recipients of Jeff's generosity, I ended up with a PWE chock full of awesome Reds' cards. How awesome?

Well, how often do you get a beautiful framed Allen & Ginter relic in a PWE?

How about an autograph?

Still not convinced? Well, Jeff also sent along a number of other great Reds.

From the modern Reds, I got a nice Bowman card of Todd Frazier.

And yes, it did pain me to write both "nice" and "Bowman" in the same sentence. It simply felt wrong.

I also got a gold parallel of a guy named Tucker. You don't get that in the mail everyday!

Finally, going a bit more old school. O-Pee-Chee back when it was actually French.

And one of the Reds' relievers from the only year in which the team was truly good (1990) in my lifetime.